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The Only AI Tools You Need (12-Minute Guide)

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The Only AI Tools You Need (12-Minute Guide)

Every AI tool excels at one thing. #ChatGPT follows complex instructions without dropping steps. #Gemini handles video, audio, and massive files other models can't process. #Claude produces working code and polished copy on the first try. Perplexity fetches accurate information in seconds. NotebookLM answers only from your sources, so it can't hallucinate.

This video breaks down when to use each tool based on three years of daily use, first at Google and now as a creator. Part 1 covers Everyday AI and Specialist AI. Part 2 covers Creative and Productivity AI.

F You, Sony | Bringing Back Discs & Learning a Lost Art, Pt. 1

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F You, Sony | Bringing Back Discs & Learning a Lost Art, Pt. 1

We're going back to the physical media age as an educational exercise to learn how discs used to be duplicated for small-scale productions, how they're printed on with thermal printers, and the software needed for encoding and chaptering. As a one-year anniversary of getting Bloomberged for our AI GPU Black Market documentary, this multi-part series brings us some safety from the one-click copyright strike takedowns and YouTube compression as we research how to launch in-house burned Blu-Ray discs, audio CDs, and more. Features a Cronus automated disc duplicator that we bought.

216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

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LG spying on people through the TV

The LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition) functionality that can pry into your personal life with greater precision than you might realize, with LG Ad Solutions' executives and leadership saying, on camera, that LG "owns the glass." Not you -- even though you bought it -- but them. They also talk about knowing everybody in the household, knowing the secondary devices, moving from TVs to smartphones and other screens, and more in their B2B discussions. Beyond just the fact that we think the TV's native behavior parallels malware, the LG Smart TVs we tested also have a number of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to convert the TVs into covert listening devices. In this investigation, we dive into the mix of LG's first-party functionality that (in our opinions) is tantamount to spying and LG's vulnerabilities and exploits that they have failed to protect against.

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